August has come around so quickly, where has the summer gone? RPM Mag is proud to release the August 2024 issue…in Print and Digital. To order yours visit http://www.rpmmag.com/subscribe
FEATURE CAR – FUEL THE PASSION – Rick Trunkett’s street driven 7-second Duster commands respect, and it is well earned! He would religiously read his Mopar Muscle Magazine subscription at the age of ten and his first car memory was of a trip to the car show with his father and cousins in a 1967 Dodge Coronet, which his dad still owns. They pulled up alongside his cousin’s 1968 Pontiac GTO for a run, and the Coronet squeaked out the win. “I remember my cousin shouted, ‘Mopar Baby ‘, and it’s been me and my Mopars ever since,” Rick remembered fondly.
OLE BLUE – This wicked Twin-turbo LS Chevelle mixes high tech power with old school style! For drag racing, the Mustang and Camaro are obvious picks of the litter, but there are other models such as the Chevelle and Nova that are in close running within the lineup of Bowtie offerings. For Vince Moore, as long as it was a GM product, any one of the above would work to create the hot rod of his dreams. Moore started hitting the dragstrip in El Paso, Texas at the tender age of 11 to watch his mother’s boyfriend bracket race.
KEVIN’S COUPE– You’ll love Kevin Klime’s full weight true stock suspension blown small block Coupe! The Fox Body Mustang is iconic, and regardless of your brand affiliation, you simply can’t argue that. They are used by Ford gearheads for everything and anything and even by the Chevy crew when they slip their LS between the rails with massive amounts of spray or twins pumping out mega boost. Heck, we’ve even seen Mopar mills installed in the platform. In short, a large number of us cut our teeth on the street and strip with one of these cars.
C7 HEAVEN – This all motor Corvette started as a date night cruiser and ended up a record holder on the strip! One of the most exciting parts of being a gearhead is that we have so many choices to make as we work through our builds. While many of us will use the same basic platform, the end result between two similar builds is usually quite different, not to mention that each of us puts our own personality into building our pride and joy. For Dave Hintemeyer,
his 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray 3LT Z51 is definitely special – it blasts 9.50 ¼-mile hits at near 150mph in full weight street trim with no power adder!
YOU ASKED FOR IT…WE DELIVERED! Fresh from the pages of June 2020 RPM Mag when we were not printing due to Covid…bringing you a feature each month from the unprinted archives.
KNOW THE RULES…EVEN WHEN THERE ARE NONE! Pierre-Luc Mallet’s 1991 Mustang Coupe Grudge Car. Grudge no-time drag racing has grown from the roots of both street racing and organized street car style class drag racing. Add in the component of not having time clocks telling everybody what a car is capable of (that’s why it’s called NO TIME) and you just managed to level the playing field to almost flat!
